The limited compatibility of liberalism and pluralism: against the general incompatibility thesis.

Contemporary liberal theorists have grown relate toed with value pluralism--in essence, with people's "conflicting and incommensurable conceptions of the human good" (1)--and its implications for liberal political theory. (2) Indeed, single important argument that has lately been advanced in defense of various forms of political liberalism is that they are particularly well-suited to accommodating value pluralism. (3) Many critics of liberalism, however, have forcefully argued that the greatest in quantity influential contemporary liberal theorists, of that kind as John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin, solitary appear to succeed in the accommodation of value pluralism through drastically underestimating its real profundity and that once its purpose is ...